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(No Model.)

M. ROBERTS. #WINDOW SCREEN.

Patented Feb.` l2, 1884.

WITNESSES:

e, UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`MORRIS ROBERTS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF IO GEORGE W, HOPKINS, OESAME PLAGE.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,277, datedFebruary 12, 1884.

Application filed September 8, [883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern: thus avoiding thecentral piercing ofthe stiles, 35 Be it known lthat I, MoERIs ROBERTS, a and providing a brace for each side of the citizen of the United States, residing in the Stiles, whereby the connection of the frames city and county of Philadelphia, State of one yvith another is vastly strengthened, and 5 Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and usethe framesare prevented from being bent apart ful Improvement in Insect-Screens, which imbetween the stiles. Thelocation of the pieces 4o provement is fully set forth in the following e e is preferably'at places adjacent to the top specification and accompanying drawings, in and bottom pieces a b of the frames A', where Whichl the fingers are generally applied in carrying 1o Figure 1 is a horizontal section in line x x, the screen; hence the pressure of the fingers on Fig. 2, ofl an insect-screen embodying my in! the netting is restrained by the pieces e e, so 45 vention. FigJZ is a face view ofthe screen. that the nettingis prevented from beingbulged Fig. 3 is a vertical section in line y y, Fig. 2. in at the places indicated, it being evident Similar letters of reference indicate correthat where there are pieces passed centrally 15 sponding parts in the several gures. through the stiles the nettinghas no support My invention consists of an insect-screen thereon, and hence may be fractured and 50 the frame whereof `is strong and durable, `as l pierced by the fingers or torn from their places will be hereinafter described. l of attachment with the pieces ab of the frame,

Referring t0 the drawings, A represents an all of which is avoided by my construction. 2c insect-screen formed of two frames, A', each Having thus described my invention, what formed of top piece a, bottom piece b, side I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 55 piece, c, stile d, horizontal top and bot- Patent, istom pieces e, and netting ff, the pieces e' and An insectscreen consisting of frames each pieces a b being on opposite faces of the frame. having top and bottom horizontal pieces, a 25 The side of each stile is grooved, as at g g, side piece, a grooved stile, and additional near the `upper` and lower ends, the said horizontal pieces which are secured to the 6o grooves being opposite to leach other, and the frame on the face opposite to said top and bottop and bottom pieces e e are tted in said torn pieces, substantially as and for the purgrooves, so as to be secured and slide therein pose set forth. 3o during the opening and closing motions of the screen. It will be seen that each stile has secured to it on one side the ends of top and bot- XVitnesses: 1 tom pieces e e, and opposite to the placesof JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, the attachment of said pieces the grooves g, A. P. GRANT.

Y MORRIS ROBERTS. 

